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Lectures upon the three first chapters of the RevelationLectures vpon the three first chapters of the Reuelation
Lectures upon the three first chapters of the Revelation: preached in Cambridge anno Dom. 1595. by Master William Perkins, and now published for the benefit of this Church, by Robert Hill Bachelor in Divinity. To which is added an excellent sermon, penned at the request of that noble and wise councillor, Ambrose, Earle of Warwick: in which is proved that Rome is Babylon, and that Babylon is fallenLectures vpon the three first chapters of the Reuelation: preached in Cambridge anno Dom. 1595. by Master William Perkins, and now published for the benefite of this Church, by Robert Hill Bachelor in Diuinitie. To which is added an excellent sermon, penned at the request of that noble and wise councellor, Ambrose, Earle of Warwicke: in which is proued that Rome is Babylon, and that Babylon is fallen
London: printed by Richard Field for Cuthbert Burbie, 1604
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The heart must be an honest heart: we must not only have our hearts touched with the remembrance of our sins, but they must be honest hearts,1 good hearts, such as are not purposed to live in sin, or any one sin, be it never so little, but wholly purposed to serve the Lord: we must not come with unchaste or wicked hearts, with minds to leave all sin, but yet to live in some one sin.
The heart must be an honest heart: we must not onely haue our hearts touched with the remembrance of our sinnes, but they must be honest hearts,1 good hearts, such as are not purposed to liue in sinne, or any one sinne, be it neuer so litle, but wholy purposed to serue the Lord: we must not come with vnchast or wicked hearts, with minds to leaue all sinne, but yet to liue in some one sinne.
We must have a believing heart. Heb. 4. 2. The old Jews heard the word, but it profited them not, because they mingled it not with faith in their hearts: where he compares them to a vessel, in which there must be both the word and faith, and these must be mingled together; it must be tempered by faith, & then it will be a word of power, of life and salvation: and this is the only means to remember the word, and to believe truly the judgements denounced against sin and sinners, and promises pronounced for the true believers. But incredulity, is when we except the curses against sin as not pertaining to us, and cannot apply the promises of the Gospel. This is the proper cause of all ignorance and oblivion; so that we must labour above all things for this true faith, to believe the word, and then we shall well and easily remember it.